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Thursday, 19 October 2017

What Do The Headlines Mean?

.. Not a lot :

In 2016 - 62,000 Americans died from overdoses of OPIOIDS. That is almost twice as many drug deaths as were caused by guns (.. 33,636 in 2013), The average number of US gun deaths over a ten year period is 30,179 per annum.

You need to remember that the population of USA is 323.1 Million.

So opioid drugs are twice as deadly to Americans as guns.

America has a drugs problem that causes twice as many deaths as guns.Have you been told that on TV ? .. of course not.

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strong belief in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual conviction rather than proof.

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